Wikification guide

From World Wind Wiki

This is a guide to simple wikification. It is by no means a complete tutorial concerning the intricacies of a wiki, but is intended to give a novice a place to start. You might also find the Wikipedia tutorial useful.

To indent something, insert a colon in front of it. It must be the first thing on the line you are indenting. Multiple colons can be used for varying degrees of indentation; the more that are used, the more something will be indented. This is especially useful during discussions, as it will create a thread that can be more easily followed and responded to.

You can produce two kinds of lists: a standard bullet list and a numeral list. A standard bullet list is produced by using asterisks. Subsections of bullet lists can be made by using multiple asterisks:

First statement.

Something about the first statement.

Yet another thing.

Second statement.

You get the point. Numeral lists are more straightfoward; they are made using a pound or hash sign.

As you can see, at the top of this page there is a Table of Contents. A Table of Contents is automatically generated when you use tags to denote sections and/or subsections. You can denote a section or subsection using double or triple equal signs.

==This is a section==

===This is a subsection===

What this produces is in front of you. Text for a section will be made larger, and will have a line beneath it. Text for subsections will be bolded and made larger, but not as large as the text for a section. You can actually insert up to four equal signs on either side of a subsection to create a sub-sub-section, but this is rarely necessary.